Francis Patrick Kenrick

when they have grown wanton ?' When they have become lascivious ; when they have given themselves to pleasure. He calls the covenant the truth and the faith, as if he said : they have proved false to Him, they have made void and violated their engagements." St. Chrysostom. "It should seem," says Bloomfield, "that these x^fj-i engaged themselves to the performance of certain duties inconsistent with the married state, and that a promise (or vow) of re- maining single was expected of them, on being entered on the list."